Vitamin D three times a year can prevent fractures [Full text]

	Is adjusted indirect comparison valid? [Full text]

	Changing partners reduces risk of prolonged pregnancy [Full text]

	Integrated cardiac rehabilitation service meets NSF targets [Full text]

	AIDS in South Africa is more than polemics [Full text]

	Telephone consultations for review of asthma improve access [Full text]

Editorials

	New contract for general practitioners
	Paul Shekelle
	BMJ  2003;326:457-458, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.457 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Management of people who have been raped
	Jantje Wilken, Jan Welch
	BMJ  2003;326:458-459, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.458 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Arms sales, health, and security
	Lawrence Korb
	BMJ  2003;326:459-460, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.459 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Mobile phones in hospitals
	Saul G Myerson, Andrew R J Mitchell
	BMJ  2003;326:460-461, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.460 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Fetal surgery
	Diana Farmer
	BMJ  2003;326:461-462, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.461 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Letters

This week's letters [PDF]

	Media influence on suicide
	Andy Howe, Vicci Owen-Smith, Judith Richardson, Rachel Hardyman, Geraldine Leydon, Kathy P M Chan, Dominic T S Lee, Sing Lee, Paul S F Yip
	BMJ  2003;326:498, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.498 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Death risk other than from suicide is raised in self harm
	Cameron Stark, David Hall, Anthony Pelosi
	BMJ  2003;326:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.499 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Low dosage tricyclic antidepressants in depression
	Hugh M Jones, Imad M Ali, Janet E Martin, Toshi A Furukawa, Corrado Barbui, Hugh McGuire
	BMJ  2003;326:499, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.499/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Regulatory bodies can root out corruption
	Francis J Morrissey
	BMJ  2003;326:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.501 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Mortality from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
	Anthony J Howard, Mari Morgan, David N Looker, Janice E Lessard
	BMJ  2003;326:501, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.501/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Managing acute renal colic
	A Hindle, R Spedding, James P B O'Connor, Philip M T Weston
	BMJ  2003;326:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.502 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Establish reason why purulent rhinitis is persistent first
	Peter J Robb
	BMJ  2003;326:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.502/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	G7 countries are not to blame for Africa's brain drain
	Joseph Ana
	BMJ  2003;326:502, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.502/b [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

	AIDS vaccine may offer hope only for some ethnic groups
	Lynn Eaton
	BMJ  2003;326:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.463 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Industry group created bogus websites to hijack browsers
	Ray Moynihan
	BMJ  2003;326:463, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.463/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	In brief
	BMJ  2003;326:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.464 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Combined aspirin and clopidogrel treatment improves outcomes, study finds
	David Spurgeon
	BMJ  2003;326:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.464/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Ephedra supplement may have contributed to sportsman's death
	Fred Charatan
	BMJ  2003;326:464, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.464/b [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	GPs to get rises of 10-50% over three years
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.465 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	No deal in sight on cheap drugs for poor countries
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:465, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.465/a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Surgeon who alleged constructive dismissal over bullying loses case
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.467/c [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

	Scientist or showman?
	Debashis Singh
	BMJ  2003;326:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.468 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF]

News roundup [abridged versions appear in the paper journal]

	Health authorities face big payouts after ombudsman�s ruling
	Anne Gulland
	BMJ  2003;326:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.466 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Spread of AIDS in Africa driven by poor medical practice, report says
	Owen Dyer
	BMJ  2003;326:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.466/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Children with Tourette's syndrome given special showing of Harry Potter film
	Roger Dobson
	BMJ  2003;326:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.466/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	UK government�s epilepsy action plan "fundamentally flawed"
	Caroline White
	BMJ  2003;326:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.466/c [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Millions more at risk of arsenic poisoning than previously thought
	Sanjay Kumar
	BMJ  2003;326:466, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.466/d [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Women too busy to exercise
	Jocalyn Clark
	BMJ  2003;326:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.467 [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Ban direct to consumer advertising, report recommends
	Bob Burton
	BMJ  2003;326:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.467/a [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

	Streamlined training for junior doctors is set for 2004
	Rhona MacDonald
	BMJ  2003;326:467, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.467/b [Extract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text]

News extra [these stories appear only on the web]

	Rich countries pledge to help poor nations fight tobacco
	Fiona Fleck
	BMJ  2003;326:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.468/a [Extract] [Full text]

	United States limits resident physicians to 80 hour working week
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.468/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Commissions start review of service framework for coronary heart disease
	Sarah Macdonald
	BMJ  2003;326:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.468/c [Extract] [Full text]

	Long term study shows no increase in mortality or cancer in UK nuclear weapon test veterans
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  2003;326:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.468/d [Extract] [Full text]

	Digoxin levels should be kept to a minimum in men with heart failure
	Scott Gottlieb
	BMJ  2003;326:468, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.468/e [Extract] [Full text]

Primary care

	Accessibility, acceptability, and effectiveness in primary care of routine telephone review of asthma: pragmatic, randomised controlled trial
	Hilary Pinnock, Robert Bawden, Stephen Proctor, Stephanie Wolfe, Jane Scullion, David Price, Aziz Sheikh
	BMJ  2003;326:477-479, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.477 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Near patient testing for influenza in children in primary care: comparison with laboratory test
	Anthony Harnden, Angela Brueggemann, Sasha Shepperd, Judy White, Andrew C Hayward, Maria Zambon, Derrick Crook, David Mant
	BMJ  2003;326:480, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.480 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

Quality improvement reports

	Achieving national service framework standards for cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention
	Hasnain M Dalal, Philip H Evans
	BMJ  2003;326:481-484, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.481 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: List of general practices]

Clinical review

	Age related macular degeneration
	Amresh Chopdar, Usha Chakravarthy, Dinesh Verma
	BMJ  2003;326:485-488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.485 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Additional figures]

	Lesson of the week: Bilateral renovascular disease causing cardiorenal failure
	Alison Brammah, Sue Robertson, Graeme Tait, Chris Isles
	BMJ  2003;326:489-491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.489 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ABC of learning and teaching in medicine: Teaching small groups
	David Jaques
	BMJ  2003;326:492-494, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.492 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Soundings

	Speech that irritates
	George Dunea
	BMJ  2003;326:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.507/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

	The population trap
	Imre Loefler
	BMJ  2003;326:507, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.507 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

	The politics of AIDS in South Africa: beyond the controversies
	Didier Fassin, Helen Schneider
	BMJ  2003;326:495-497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.495 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  2003;326:508, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.508 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

	POEM: Physical therapy is probably effective for patellofemoral pain
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.0/g [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	One hundred years ago: Doctors in British fiction
	BMJ  2003;326:481, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.481/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	When I use a word: Dropsy
	Jeff Aronson
	BMJ  2003;326:491, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.491 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Submitting articles to the BMJ
	BMJ  2003;326:492, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.492/a [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Corrections

	Socioeconomic position in childhood and adulthood and insulin resistance: cross sectional survey using data from British women's heart and health study
	BMJ  2003;326:488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.488 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Doctors' use of electronic medical records systems in hospitals: cross sectional survey
	BMJ  2003;326:488, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.488/a [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Distinguishing between salt poisoning and hypernatraemic dehydration in children
	BMJ  2003;326:497, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.497 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

TV

	TV: Horizon: Trial and Error
	Alastair Kent
	BMJ  2003;326:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.506 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

ART

	Art: Unknown Quantity
	Deborah Cohen
	BMJ  2003;326:505, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.505 [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

CHOICE

	AIDS in Africa
	BMJ  2003;326, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.0/f [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEBSITE OF THE WEEK

	Website of the week: Gene therapy
	Birte Twisselmann
	BMJ  2003;326:506, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.506/a [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Obituaries

This week's obituaries [PDF]

	Emanuel M Papper
	Janice Hopkins Tanne
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503 [Extract] [Full text]

	Alfred Finlay Brown
	G Dale
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/a [Extract] [Full text]

	Edmund Henry Hemsted
	J B Hemsted
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/b [Extract] [Full text]

	Donald Longson
	T B Stretton, J Longson
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/c [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Evelyn Morag MacDonald
	Roger Rayner
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/d [Extract] [Full text]

	John Niall Meredydd Parry
	Derek J Llewellyn
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/e [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Robert Heywood Seville
	P V Harrison
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/f [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Patricia Mary Tate (née Tomlins)
	Christopher Tomlins
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/g [Extract] [Full text] [extra: Longer version]

	Sir Douglas Black
	BMJ  2003;326:503, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.503/h [Extract] [Full text]

Papers

	Effect of four monthly oral vitamin D3 (cholecalciferol) supplementation on fractures and mortality in men and women living in the community: randomised double blind controlled trial
	Daksha P Trivedi, Richard Doll, Kay Tee Khaw
	BMJ  2003;326:469, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.469 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Validity of indirect comparison for estimating efficacy of competing interventions: empirical evidence from published meta-analyses
	Fujian Song, Douglas G Altman, Anne-Marie Glenny, Jonathan J Deeks
	BMJ  2003;326:472, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.472 [Abstract] [Abridged text] [Abridged PDF] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] [extra: Methods and example] FREE

	Research pointers: Survey of claims of no effect in abstracts of Cochrane reviews
	Phil Alderson, Iain Chalmers
	BMJ  2003;326:475, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.475 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Risk of recurrence of prolonged pregnancy
	Annette Wind Olesen, Olga Basso, Jørn Olsen
	BMJ  2003;326:476, doi: 10.1136/bmj.326.7387.476 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions] FREE

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